The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
Weekly Market Review.


MoNTPEIIER.-The butter market is fairly
steady for the best grades and receipts
are very large. Nice fresh butter sells
for 10 to TIC per lb cheese, new, 16c per
ID; eggs 12c per dozen; potatoes, SOC per
bushel; beef, 8 to &c per 10; pork, &c per ID;
lamb, 4Ic per Id; mutton, % to &c per lb.
wATERTowN AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.
CArTLE.-The receipts were l,120 head.
The market was fairly good, Northern SELL
ing at 4 to 65c and fancy lots at 7 to 7lc per
pound. There was a fair movement to
trade. f. II. Coolidge & Son sold one nice
Jersey springer at $40 and some mich cows
at S35 to $50 each; 1. G. Libby & Son sold
three good mich cows at $40 for the lot and
one pair of working oxen girthing seven
feet and weighing 5000 lbs at S138; j. ID.
Hosmer sold one pair of working oxen
girthng six feet and eight inches and weigh
ing 5000 lbs at 1925.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
9,S41 head. The demand was fair at q to
DC for sheep and to &c for lambs.
SwNE.-The receipts were 1S,497 head.
The market was dull, Northern dressed
selling at 69 to &c and Western live at 81 to
6Bc per pound.
VEALs.-Receipts, / 1874 head. The demand
was fair, prices ranging from q to &c per
pound.
PoULTRY.-There were only few hun
ureu pOunuS on Une market. 1rlCeS ranged
at 10 to lie per pound, live weight.
HIDES, TALLow, ETc.-We quote Brighton
hides at 81 to &c and country lots at to &c
per ID; caf-skins, &c per Id; pelts, S1.35 to
S175 EACH Brighton tallow, % to &c. and
country lots at Il to &c per pound.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
EGGs.-Receipts have been larger and
there is not a very good demand for any
grade. Vermont and New York sell at 12Jc
and choice Western at 13c per dozen.
CHEEsE.-The market is unchanged as
regards demand. Fine old cheese is cleaned
up and there has hardly been enough full
cream cheese received upon which to
| base market prices. Extra Vermont sells
at 10 to 13lc, good to choice at IL
| to 125c, common at to 10c and extra sage
at ii to l2c per pound.
BUTTER.-The market has not been ex-
tremely active. Supply and demand are
pretty evenly balanced, both being rather
light, and prices show but little change
| from last week. The best creamery is SELL
ing moderately well, but there is but
little call for second grades. Dairy lots
sell fairly well. Some Vermont lots
have been in good demand and extras
have sold as high as twenty-five cents.
Extra Northern creamery sells at %
to 24c extra Western creamery at "a
to DC, choice do at 90 to 24c, the finest
Franklin county dairy at 25 to &c, good
dairy at Is to &c and fair to good do at II
to 15c per pound.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
THE arrivals of Eastern lumber have
been a little larger this week. but have not
been beyond reasonable proportions and
have been readily disposed of at full prices.
There has continued to be good fair call
for Eastern lumber the past week at quota
tions. The water mills are starting in and
large number will be at work next week.
There has been a good call for car lum-
Der and for frames, generally at steady
prices, and the mills are not pressing for
orders. Rough hemlock boards sell at
$1,000 to $1,000 and planed do at $1100
to $3.50 the best clear spruce floor boards
at $3.50 to $500, coarse at $500 and
refuse at $500 to $780, one-inch box
boards at $500 and seven-eighths do at
S11.00; Eastern sawed cedar shingles at
$40 to S3.624, clear do at $500 to S312s, the
best shaved shingles at S5.25, other grades
at 1925 to S4.75 and No. l spruce at S1.25 to
$50; extra four-foot spruce clapboards at
1927, 90 to $50, do clear at S25 to 5000 and
other grades at SO to S21 90; pine and spruce
laths at $500 to S2.12I; the best spruce
underfloors at $1,000 and other grades at
$3.50 to $500